Tehran, Feb 20 - Iran's ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeed Iravani, warned that his country will respond with firmness and proportionality to any military attack, in exercise of its right to self-defense, Iranian media reported today.
Amman, Feb 19.- The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan, Ayman Safadi, affirmed today that peace will not be achieved in the Middle East while the Israeli occupation of territories in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine continues, the official Jordanian news agency Petra reported.
Paris, Feb 19.- Cuba's permanent representative to UNESCO, María del Carmen Herrera, today explained to the organization's Director-General, Khaled El-Enany, the consequences of the tightening of the U.S. blockade through an energy siege measure.
Tel Aviv, Feb 18.- Around 1,200 academics, university rectors, former military personnel, former judges, and figures from various Israeli sectors criticized a bill, currently under parliamentary review, that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners convicted of deadly attacks.
Moscow, Feb 18.- The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, today reaffirmed to his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez, that his country will maintain its unrestricted support for Havana against the United States blockade.
Harare, Feb 18.- The United States base in the territory it illegally occupies in Guantánamo, Cuba, is living testimony to the persistence of imperial power, the violation of principles of International Law and sovereignty, assured MafaKwanisai, Coordinator of the Fidel Castro Chair at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe.
Ramallah, February 17 - The Palestinian Presidency today condemned the ongoing bloodshed in the occupied territories due to attacks by Israeli security forces and settlers.
Caracas, February 17 - The National Movement of Mutual Friendship and Solidarity Venezuela-Cuba today described the intensification of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the island, with the decision to prevent fuel from entering, as an act of unprecedented cruelty.
Ramallah, Feb 16.- Palestinian authorities today condemned in harsh terms Israel's decision to register West Bank lands as state property, which constitutes a de facto annexation of large areas of that occupied territory.
Moscow, Feb 16.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has denounced the brutal attempt by the United States to energetically suffocate the people of his country and thanked African leaders for rejecting this pressure on the island.
South Africa, February 14.- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a State of the Nation address to Parliament, in which he linked the concept of freedom with the situation faced by various peoples around the world. “We cannot consider ourselves free while the peoples of Cuba, Palestine, Sudan, Western Sahara, and others suffer from occupation, oppression, and war,” the president stated.
Vientiane, February 14.- The president of the Laos-Cuba Friendship Association, Chaleun Yiapaoheu, today expressed his condolences for the passing of Doctor Julio López, head of the first Cuban medical brigade that provided services in this Southeast Asian nation in 1973.